State Treasurer Denise Nappier said Saturday that a Hartford police union official's version of a Sept. 1 traffic stop -- in which the union official said that before Nappier walked 3 miles to her home from where her official state car was towed, she declined offers from three police officers to give her a ride -- "is a fictitious account."
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Hartford Police Union Vice President Nazario Figueroa had said in an interview Friday that the officers offered to drive her, contradicting the version of events that Nappier originally gave Wednesday. In an interview with The Courant, she had said that one of the officers suggested that she call someone to pick her up because it was a dangerous neighborhood -- in a parking lot behind an apartment complex at 385 Barbour St. in the North End of Hartford -- but she instead went home on foot in the dark to her home on Westerly Terrace.
Nappier has not returned calls from The Courant for further comment since Wednesday, but on Saturday she issued a prepared statement: "While I expressed frustration after the vehicle's valid registration was not confirmed that evening, it was my decision to walk home. Nonetheless, the police union representative's statement, that all three officers on duty that night offered me a ride home, is a fictitious account of my understanding of the options then before me."